Media Advisories

John Brown, associate director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, will give remarks at Microsoft Corporation's Blacks at Microsoft Minority Student Day on Friday, Feb. 17, in Charlotte, N.C. He will discuss the impact of technology and global...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give remarks at the Future Educators Association's 23rd annual conference on Friday, Feb. 17, in Baltimore, Md. He will discuss the need for more quality teachers to join those already in the classrooms, and the important contribution and personal...

Brenda Dann-Messier, assistant secretary of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, will visit Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, Feb. 16, to discuss the importance of career academies and their connection to career and technical education. She will first tour Hillwood High School’s Academy of...

Michael Yudin, the U.S. Education Department’s acting assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, will give the keynote address at the annual conference of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) at 2:00 p.m. CT on Thursday, Feb. 16 in Dallas, Texas.

Joanne Weiss, chief of staff for Secretary Arne Duncan at the U.S. Department of Education, and Karen Cator, director of the Office Educational Technology, will visit Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday, Feb.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will hold a town hall meeting with teachers on Wednesday, Feb., 15 at the Department to launch a new initiative led by active classroom teachers to help inform the Obama Administration’s proposal and the broader effort to elevate and strengthen the teaching...

U.S. Department of Education Assistant Deputy Secretary Jim Shelton will participate in a panel discussion on Scaling Innovations in the Education Sector at the Duke University Sustainable Business and Social Impact student-run conference at 10:45 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the Fuqua...

U.S. Department of Education Assistant Deputy Secretary Jim Shelton will give opening remarks at Improving Arts Learning through Standards & Assessment: A National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research Roundtable, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the Old Post Office Pavillion in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at 2:30PM, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, and Cecilia Munoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, will host an on-the-record conference call to discuss the President’s announcement of a new $8 billion Community College...